A senior minister of former Prime Minister Imran Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party was allegedly abducted, together with two others, from Gilgit-Baltistan area in northern Pakistan by armed males belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on Friday afternoon.
The minister and the vacationers had been released on Saturday after negotiations with the militants, who’ve been demanding the discharge of their jailed accomplices, confirmed a video clip released by the abducted minister Abaidullah Baig.
In the video clip making the rounds on social media, Baig mentioned he was kidnapped whereas he was on his method from Islamabad to Gilgit by militants, who arrange blockades on one of many main arterial roads linking Pakistan’s restive provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).
Habibur Rahman, Gilgit-Baltistans most wished militant commander, who was accused of killing 10 foreigners in Nanga Parbat, and his accomplices blocked the street in Thak village of Chilas in Diamer round 4pm on Friday, leaving travellers on each side stranded, a supply complete Dawn newspaper, a widely known every day in Pakistan.
According to sources, the militants had been demanding the discharge of their accomplices, together with these concerned in the ugly homicide of foreigners in the Nanga Parbat space and different terrorist incidents in Diamer. The militants have additionally demanded the “imposition of Islamic laws, with no women sports activities” in the province.
While the minister was underneath militant custody, Faizullah, a former spokesperson of the Gilgit-Baltistan authorities, mentioned he had spoken to Abaid Ullah Baig and talks had been underway for his launch.
Meanwhile, Geo TV, a broadcast company in Pakistan, reported that Baig, who was abducted from Babusar Road in Gilgit-Baltistan, has reached dwelling.
Baig was elected from Hunza in the northern a part of the Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan on a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) ticket.
The incident surfaced as Pakistan senators on Friday sounded an alarm over the surge in terrorist actions by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), whereas a senator sought a briefing over a latest risk alert issued by the inside ministry in regards to the heightened threat of terrorist assaults by the banned outfit.
The inside ministry had lately issued an alert over the rising risk of terrorist assaults by the group or its factions after talks with the TTP didn’t fetch something fruitful.
(With inputs from PTI)
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